Re: [313]DEMF--Attendacne figures

2000-05-30 Thread Roger John Lesinski Jr
Did you see the guy counting all the people in the crowd on top of the Ren-Cen? He spent all day counting the people who came. He might have missed a few people who were behind some tres, or counted some people twice, but he did a good job. > > ummm, ok - is anyone else not quite sure abou

Re: [313]DEMF--Attendacne figures

2000-05-30 Thread detroit science
ummm, ok - is anyone else not quite sure about these numbers? 750,000 seems to be a super high number to me, especially considering that we parked less than 2 blocks away all weekend. how many people come down to the fireworks every year? i thought that number was around a million, and when

Re: [313]DEMF--Attendacne figures

2000-05-30 Thread Diana Potts
well, from what I understand from the article in the newspaper this morning, the city isnt allowed to count officially...but the estimated figure was 900,000 plus. You have to decrease that a little a bit for triple counts (example:i went all three days,so perhaps I was count three times). d